Faith Wilding emigrated to the United States in 1961 from Paraguay. She recieved her MFA at CalArts where she was a founding member of the Feminist Art Program. Wilding is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work addresses aspects of the somatic, psychic, and sociopolitical history of the body. Recent publications, lectures, and exhibitions and performances focus on issues of cyberfeminist theory and practice, with particular emphasis on biotechnology. Wilding has exhibited and lectured widely in the US and Europe. Her audio work has been commissioned and broadcast by RIAS Berlin; WDR Cologne; and National Public Radio, USA. Wilding has published in MEANING, Heresies, Ms.magazine, The Power of Feminist Art, and other books and magazines.
She is the recipient of two individual media grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently, Wilding is a Research Fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and a faculty member of the MFA in Visual Art Program at Vermont College, Norwich University.